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The life of St
George of Iviron is a text of great importance, supplying a wealth of information about
its subject, about Georgian hagiology, and about the history of Iviron Monastery and
Athonite monasticism in general. A scribal note informs us that this manuscript is an
exact copy of the original. Yet, whereas some older manuscripts of the life of St George
the Athonite present textual problems, this one (which has not yet been sufficiently
studied) preserves the most authentic form of the text. It has been translated into Latin:
Peeters 1922, pp. 69-159.
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